All Alone – Musical Thoughts from the mind of a 14 year old
When I was a young teen, I spent a huge portion of my time alone in my room. Music was my only voice to the outside world. It carried on a frequency that seemed to transcend […]
The Way of the Bonsai
There had been great anticipation inside the hearts of the couple who, one day, gave birth to twin girls. Their efforts to continue in love, the image of themselves, perhaps embodied in the personality of another, […]
It’s All About Sex, So Quit Dragging Empathy Out Back For A Beating
My response to Eustica Cutler on her Daily Beast Post Autism and Child Pornography: A Toxic Combination
Opening Statement
Before I begin, I want to make it absolutely clear that I do NOT support the use of child […]
The Developmental Corset of Therapy, and How to Break It
I recently read a wonderful post on BBC Ouch, by a guest blogger named Mark Neary. In his blog, he wrote about how clinical jargon is used in his autistic […]
Bridges
there’s this bridge I’m looking for
i don’t know where it goes
but I’m sure it spans the distance
between our shores
on foot’s the only way I see
to trek this […]
Farewell Catarina, Farewell to Love
As I am a creature of patterns, though there is a vast difference between patterns and repetitious outcomes that slap me in the face. Despite my prodigious optimism, to see past persistant repetitious outcomes, I am […]
How Do You Teach A Fish To Fly?
What if we woke at sunset, and bedded down at the rooster’s crow?
What it we lived days lit by moonlight, napping through nights in the warmth of the sun?
Would we all rush to the seaside to […]
The Autism Industry and the Glare of the Blue Light
The Background, and My Own Struggle
I read an article in USA Today last May that touched me very deeply. AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner reported that 1 in 3 Autistic young adults “…have no paid job experience, […]
A Song A City – Opening Thoughts
For as long as I can remember, everything around me has a song. My mind is linked with the universe through music, as if we all are laying on the same sound fabric. I […]
Stone Shadow
Join me as I debut my new shadow song, Stone Shadow. In honor of Autism Awareness Month, I will perform on my violin along with Allana Rain on: